Run up with my fucking Reebok highs, dude, to this fence.

Start trying to scale it.

It's got the pieces of plastic that go in between the fence.

Bro, I'm sliding down this thing.

There's just like, dude, it's literally probably like eight or nine feet with razor wire.

Louis Espinoza grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut, surrounded by chaos.

With a mother in and out of jail battling addiction, Lewis dropped out of high school

and fell into the streets. After years of trouble, he landed in prison for a third time at just 22

years old. But three months into a sentence, he made a life-changing decision. He tried to escape.

Captured just hours later, Lewis faced a reality of prison life. Today, he shares

his unbelievable story of growing up in dysfunction, doing time, attempting a prison escape,

and ultimately turning his life around.

Lou, welcome to Lockton, man, a fellow Connecticut resident. Yes, sir. Thanks so much for reaching out and come on to the show, man. Yeah, no problem, man. I've been getting into podcasts, and I peeped yours, and I was like, ah, that seems like something I could do, you know? Yeah. It's so cool how, like, accessible social media has made things. I mean, we're from Connecticut, never met each other until today.

How old are you? How old are you? You're 30 on 32. So we grew up in the generation before all this. So it's really cool, you know. Yeah, like meeting a stranger like this would be frowned upon, you know, 15 years ago. Well, even to the degree where it's like, you know, just all the tech and stuff like that, how somebody could watch this once it's put up right from their phone,

like back in the day, I remember waiting for Power Rangers to come on. You know what I mean? So it's super cool. Yeah. And I always used to grow up like intimidated by YouTube. I was like, yeah, I'd never be a YouTuber. Right. Now here I am posting on YouTube and stuff. Yeah, it's sick. It's, it's crazy how life works out. It's cool that people can build like a foundation off that and careers off of it, though it blows my mind. It still blows my mind to this day. And I'm at the bottom of the barrel. There's like a whole bigger field out there. Right, right. So it's interesting to say. Where'd you grow up in Connecticut?

So I was born and raised in Waterbury, Connecticut, St. Mary's Hospital.

You know, I only had my mom in my life.

My father was never around.

From there, I went to upstate New York for a while to live with my grandmother because my mom actually did jail time.

So I went from Waterbury to Upstate New York, was in Will Mantic for a year, and then Bristol was like where I grew up, like, as like, prepubescent.

You know what I mean?

Like that's where I made all my friends, you know, he's from Bristol. You know what I mean? Like, that's where I made all my friends, you know, he's from

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